Episode 42: Alternative 1970s American Horror – THE SEQUEL, feat. Bill Ackerman of Supporting Characters (1 of 2)
Release Date: 01/07/2024
52: Anthology Horror, feat. Chloe Waryan (Chloe’s Not Scared)
Genre Grinder
WHAT’S BETTER THAN A SCARY STORY? SEVERAL SCARY STORIES COLLATED INTO A SINGLE MOVIE WITH A SPOOKY WRAPAROUND SEGMENT! Gather ‘round the campfire, boils, ghouls, and non-binary creatures of all ages while we take a look at those little groupings of shorts known as Anthology or Portmanteau Horror. Join Gabe and first time special guest Chloe Warayan () as they take a look at a cavalcade of titles from across the decades – Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer’s Dead of Night (1945), Freddie Francis’ Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), Jeff...
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51.2 The Spaghetti Westerns of 1968, feat. Patrick Ripoll of 96 Greers (2 of 3)
Genre Grinder
HOP ALONG, CASSIDY – OR WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS – AND TUCK IN FOR A SECOND HELPING OF PASTA & MEATBALLS WITH A SIDE OF BULLETS & GRIT! Welcome back for part two of Gabe and Patrick’s three-part look back at the Spaghetti Westerns of 1968. This is going to be the longest of the three episodes, because we’re rappin’ about six films – Ferdinando Baldi's Hate Thy Neighbor (Italian: Odia il prossimo tuo), Gianfranco Baldanello's Black Jack, Giulio Petroni's A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (Italian: ...e per tetto un cielo di stelle), Gianfranco Parolini's If You Meet...
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51.1 The Spaghetti Westerns of 1968, feat. Patrick Ripoll of 96 Greers (1 of 3)
Genre Grinder
PREPARE YOUR SIX-GUNS AND YOUR BOLOGNESE AS WE DIG INTO THE TWO-FISTED ITALIAN COWBOY TALES OF THE BIGGEST YEAR IN SPAGHETTI WESTERN HISTORY! Welcome to another multi-part exploration of a single year in genre filmmaking. Join Gabe and returning guest Patrick Ripoll as they follow up their series on the slasher films of 1981, the gialli of 1971, and the giant monster movies of 1957 with a look at the spaghetti westerns of 1968. Gabe, a superfan and massive nerd, narrowed down a list of seventy-seven (that’s 77) films to the 15 he thinks best represent this jam-packed and particularly...
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50. [Blank] in Wonderland Movies, feat. Betsy of Your Favorite Monsters
Genre Grinder
COME WITH US AS WE TUMBLE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, PASS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, ENTER THE WARDROBE, AND RIDE A TORNADO TO OZ! It’s time to cover one of my favorite subgenres: movies where people cross over into another world where they learn a lesson and meet a bunch of walking metaphors. This episode’s guest host, Betsy, calls these Portal Fantasies and notes similarities to the popular anime/manga Isekai genre, but I’m afraid that those titles will mess up my search results, so I’m calling them [Blank] in Wonderland Movies. We’re trying to cover some of the rarer...
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49. Animation/Live-Action Hybrids, feat. Tyler Foster
Genre Grinder
IT’S SEQUENTIAL DRAWINGS VERSUS FLESH & BLOOD ACTORS IN A SHOWDOWN OF MULTIMEDIA PROPORTIONS! Since the advent of filmmaking, people have been combining live-action photography with hand-drawn animation and now we’re talking about it. But this is a podcast and we don’t have time to cover a century of motion pictures, so Gabe and returning guest Tyler Foster are covering a smaller collection of movies released in the wake of Robert Zemeckis’ Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988), some inspired by its success, others that would have existed without it. This month’s diverse...
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48: The Hammer Horror Trans Allegory Special, feat. Luana Saitta of Defend Your Trash Movie
Genre Grinder
A DEAD WOMAN WITH THE SOUL OF A MAN! A MURDEROUS MAN WHO CAN TRANSFORM INTO A WOMAN! PROBABLY JUST A COINCIDENCE! Have you ever noticed that Hammer Studios made two horror films that work as trans allegories? Well, technically three, but I forgot about one of them. Anyway, I’ve been curious for a while as to what an actual trans person might think of Terence Fisher’s Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) and Roy Ward Baker’s Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), so I invited back my friend and the co-host of the , Luana Saitta, in order to pick her brain (Frankenstein-related wordplay...
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46.3 The Giant Monster Movies of 1957, feat. Patrick Ripoll of 96 Greers (3 of 3)
Genre Grinder
TAKE ONE LAST TRIP INTO THE UNKNOWN FOR THE ULTIMATE GIANT INSECT MOVIE, THE ULTIMATE GIANT MAN IN A DIAPER MOVIE, AND THE ULTIMATE KILLER, UM, ROCK MOVIE… Welcome to the final part of Gabe and Patrick’s look back at the biggest year in giant monster movie history. This episode features the most eclectic collection of movies, including a shoestring ‘lost world’ epic in Virgil W. Vogel’s The Land Unknown, Edward Ludwig’s absolutely incredible Black Scorpion, Bert I. Gordon’s second giant bald guy movie of the year, The Amazing Colossal Man, John Sherwood’s uniquely eerie The...
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Episode 47: Jaws, Minus the Shark Movies, feat. Ann-Marie Taylor
Genre Grinder
YOU DON’T NEED TO GO TO AMITY ISLAND FOR A SHARK MASSACRE!! IN FACT, YOU DON’T EVEN NEED A SHARK!! It’s easy to recognize a Jaws knock-off when it revolves around a shark eating people, but what about all of those movies without sharks that lift scenes and ideas from Steven Spielberg’s film and Peter Benchley’s novel? Well, around here we call those movies “Jaws, Minus the Shark” movies and they make up a surprisingly versatile and eclectic little subgenre, one full of Brodys, Quints, and inordinately sexy Hoopers. Join Gabe and Ann-Marie Taylor – returning to...
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46.2 The Giant Monster Movies of 1957, feat. Patrick Ripoll of 96 Greers (2 of 3)
Genre Grinder
FROM THE FROZEN WASTES OF THE ARCTIC TO THE DEPTHS OF THE AFRICAN JUNGLE, THE ARID DESERTS OF MEXICO, AND THE AMERICAN MIDWEST THEY CAME… Welcome to part two of Gabe and Patrick’s look back at the biggest year in giant monster movie history. We’ve got a lot of big bugs this time, including Nathan H. Juran’s The Deadly Mantis, the wasps of Kenneth G. Crane’s The Monster from Green Hell, ocean mollusks of Arnold Laven’s The Monster that Challenged the World, and locusts of Bert I. Gordon’s The Beginning of the End. For good measure, we also talk about the really big bird from the...
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46.1 The Giant Monster Movies of 1957, feat. Patrick Ripoll of 96 Greers (1 of 3)
Genre Grinder
FROM THE FURTHEST REACHES OF SPACE AND THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF THE SEA CAME ALIENS, MUTATED CREATURES, AND OTHER LARGE, SCARY ALLEGORIES! Welcome to another patented Genre Grinder deep dive into a specific year where a specific genre peaked. This time, Patrick and Gabe are looking at 15 of 17 movies about gigantic monsters released in some capacity during the year 1957 (festival, roll-out, wide, et cetera). The other two are a lost film (Tokyo 1960) and one already covered on a different episode of Genre Grinder (Quatermass II). Not unexpectedly, the conversation carried on for some time, so...
info_outlineTHE SUMMER OF LOVE GIVES WAY TO PERVERSE MELODRAMAS, BLOODY HOME INVASIONS, NECROPHILIC HOUSEWIVES, AND…CARNIVOROUS BEDS?
After Night of the Living Dead (1968), but before the slasher boom of the early ‘80s, American horror went through one of its most creative and influential eras. But, for every Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Carrie (1976), and Halloween (1978), there were dozens of under-the-radar oddities that took years – sometimes decades – to be recognized by cult audiences for their unique contributions to American horror. Join Gabe and special guest Bill Ackerman of the Supporting Characters podcast and numerous Blu-ray commentary tracks as they explore more independent horror films from the era.
This year’s batch begins with Ken Friedman’s’ Death by Invitation (1971), Jacques Lacerte’s Love Me Deadly (1972), Robert J. Emery’s My Brother Has Bad Dreams (1972), George Barry’s Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977), and Bill Gunns Ganja & Hess (1973). Stay tuned for six more titles in Part 2, live early next month.
Check out the original 2 part series here and here.
00:00 – Intro
08:22 – Death by Invitation
23:45 – Love Me Deadly
44:16 – My Brother Has Bad Dreams
1:03:17 – Death Bed: The Bed that Eats
1:16:34 – Ganja & Hess
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